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Ethan Coen

ETHAN COEN

  (1957 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    United Talent Agency  

Ethan Coen's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Ethan Coen's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Debate         Four Benches         Happy Hour         Homeland Security         Miller's Crossing         Peer Review         Redeemers, The         Sawbones         Struggle Session         Talking Cure         Waiting

Debate

Debate
Not much is learned

Notes:
Originally performed with two other shorts under the overall title "Almost An Evening"

1st Produced:
Atlantic Stage 2, New York     22 Jan 2008

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Almost An Evening" published by Three Rivers Press 2009   978-0307460417

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Four Benches

Four Benches
A British agent goes on a voyage of self discovery in steam baths in New York and Texas

Notes:
Originally performed with two other shorts under the overall title "Almost An Evening"

1st Produced:
Atlantic Stage 2, New York     22 Jan 2008

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Almost An Evening" published by Three Rivers Press 2009   978-0307460417

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Happy Hour

Synopsis:
an embittered barfly has a theory - or two - about what the world has become. a lonely young man and lonely young woman can't see how right they are for each other. His motel room is so ugly a business traveler wants to end it all. Your life could be worse - and these three one-act comedies show you how.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Signature At Peter Norton Space, NY     05 Dec 2011

Organisations:
Atlantic Theater Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
three one act comedies

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Homeland Security

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Offices" published by Dramatists Play Service    978-0822224211

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Miller's Crossing

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian, film/TV scripts

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Peer Review

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Offices" published by Dramatists Play Service    978-0822224211

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Redeemers, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
part of 10x25. This is An All-commissioned one-act festival of ten-minute plays by 25 of the playwrights who have been produced At Atlantic theater Company since 1985. 10x25 will unite And reunite Atlantic ensemble members, playwrights, And frequent guest Actors And directors in three separate offerings of ten minute plays, which will run the gamut of theatrical styles And content. 10x25 will feature new works by David Auburn, Leslie Ayvazian, Annie Baker, Stephen Belber, Bekah Brunstetter, Moira Buffini, Jez Butterworth, Ethan Coen, Kia Corthron, Tom Donaghy, John Guare, Kevin Heelan, Tina Howe, Craig Lucas, David Mamet, Peter Parnell, David Pittu, Keith Reddin, Kate Robin, Kate Moira Ryan, edwin Sanchez, Sam Shepard, Lucy Thurber, Jeff Whitty, And Bill Wrubel.

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
10 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Sawbones

Synopsis:
a veterinarian hero of a TV western caught in a love triangle with a schoolteacher and his nemesis. the housewife watching the show also ended up in a triangular affair with a salesman and her firewatcher husband.

Notes:
written by Joel & Ethan Coen. Part of theater of the New ear

1st Produced:
Royal Festival Hall, London     2005

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Sound Play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Struggle Session

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Offices" published by Dramatists Play Service    978-0822224211

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Talking Cure

Synopsis:
In Talking Cure, Ethan Coen uncovers the sort of insanity that can only come from family.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 256 West 47th Street, New York, NY 10036     20 Oct 2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Relatively Speaking, Dramatists Play Service, NY,    978-0822226321

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Waiting

Waiting
Someone waits and waits

Notes:
Originally performed with two other shorts under the overall title "Almost An Evening"

1st Produced:
Atlantic Stage 2, New York     22 Jan 2008

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Almost An Evening" published by Three Rivers Press 2009   978-0307460417

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Booksellers:

Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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